Elected Judges does not mean approve after a term of service…READ and APPLY the State’s Constitution!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JFgf5qGCq8

Duly, legally and constitutionally elected

from Kay Brooks

Lt. Governor Ramsey should not ask for my vote for governor and the chance to take that oath of office again if he cannot honor the oaths he took on January 13, 2009. He was ‘duly, legally and constitutionally’ elected. Tennessee’s judges should also be ‘duly, legally and constitutionally elected‘.

The Tennessee plan clearly ‘lessens and abridges [citizen] rights and privileges’ in direct contradiction to the oath every legislator took. Let the Tennessee plan die. If some want to change the Tennessee Constitution they should start by filing a legislative bill and not by continuing to enable the usurping of the rights of citizens because they can.

It’s time for Lt. Gov. Ramsey, and Gubernatorial Candidate Ramsey, to show us his ability to lead this state and that unlike another prominent legislator he can be trusted to fulfill his promises.

For more information on this very important issue:
http://JudicialReformCoalition.org and
Terry Frank

Is The 2010 Race For Guv A Replay Of The 2006 Senate Race?

from Post Politics: Political News and Views in Tennessee by Kleinheider

Jonathan Lindberg seems to think so:

Haslam enjoys an advantage that only an unknown candidate with money has, he will be able to define himself. The question in 2006 is the same then in 2010 – will anyone remember the other candidates when the full force of the Haslam ad machine begins?

When it comes to Republican politics, West Tennessee if often forgotten. The major advantage that Shelby County District Attorney Bill Gibbons has though is the same advantage that Ed Bryant had in 2006 – both had West Tennessee all to themselves. Unfortunately, Gibbons does not have the conservative credentials of an Ed Bryant (at this point, the conservative mantel seems to rest on the shoulders of Ramsey). Gibbons though would do well to learn from Bryant, who spent too much of his campaign trying to distance himself from Hilleary, that he forgot at times that his main competitor was Corker.

Make no mistake, Haslam is the competition and Middle Tennessee is the battleground. At this point, Ramsey seems to have the name recognition in Middle Tennessee. However, all four candidates have their sights set on those twenty-or-so counties. It was no coincidence that Gibbons announced his intention to run for Governor not in a newspaper in West Tennessee, but Middle Tennessee.

That is the politics of locality. And so the race begins.

Time Magazine’s Mark Helperin reports “Tennessee Governor Bredesen in line to run HHS after talks with White House officials.”

h/t to AC Kleinheider, who is still skeptical.

Thinking ahead to the next moves on the chess board, this would make Ron Ramsey the new Governor of Tennessee.

The Tennessee Senate would then have to elect a new Lieutenant Governor.

There would also need to be a special election to fill Ramsey’s Senate seat.

Would Jason Mumpower run for the Tennessee Senate?

If he won, the Tennessee House would need to elect a new Majority leader.

AND… there would then have to be a special election to fill Mumpower’s House seat.

But perhaps I’m getting ahead of myself….